Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Printable Advent Calendar

It has been such a great way for our family to stop in the midst of the crazy holiday season and intentionally do good in our family, our community and our world. To say that it’s been a success for us is an understatement. We highly recommend a kindness advent calendar as a way to slowdown, connect, and do good this Christmas.

So many people joined in with our 24 days of Random Acts of Christmas Kindness that I wanted to create something that would make it even easier do to one act of kindness a day and came up with a free printable Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Advent Calendar!

Random Acts of Christmas Kindness

Some of the acts of kindness on the calendar are self-explanatory but some you may have never heard of before–like candy cane bombing! I want to make this as simple as possible so here are links and information that may be helpful!

I’d love for you to follow along, share with your friends and comment or post a photo to show what you have done for that day’s RACK. Let’s cheer each other on and create a community celebrating kindness this holiday season.

There is no pressure to do all 24 if that doesn’t work for you this year, even a couple is enough for a start!

I cannot wait to see the kindness we will spread this year!

2015 Kindness Calendar

The new 2015 calendar is now out and there are two calendars to choose from! I will still be sharing the daily acts of kindness on Facebook and can’t wait to see what everyone does!

Grab a coffee and keep reading!

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

HA! I have to say I ADORE the idea of that as an assignment!!! What cool teachers! We are kindness obsessed here so tell him to ask if he gets stuck, although he is such a sweetie I bet he does hundreds without even noticing. 🙂

My book, “Embracing a Spirit of Giving,” chronicles my own family’s adventures when I designed a 25-day giving countdown 5 years ago. Based on the concept of an advent calendar, we daily shared love in simple ways as we counted down to Christmas morning. Your post made me so happy when a friend shared the calendar via Facebook! We’re gearing up for our countdown too! Thank you for sharing kindness! Blessings! ~Kelly

I just stumbled across your blog and love it. I plan to use your RACK with my own girls and my behavioral Sped class. Kindness can change lives, I can not find your link to print out your RACK’d cards. Is this something you would be willing to share?

Hilary I wasn’t as fancy to make a download back then! You can absolutely print them. People were just right clicking on them and saving to their computer and printing out. If you have trouble email me megan.sheakoski@gmail.com and I’ll send it to you as an attachment!

LOVE THIS! Just this fall I was considering how my kids have “outgrown” some of our traditions and are so busy with their teen lives. I see some things in this calendar that might refresh some old traditions and bring a little desire to participate back in!

We love this Random Acts of Kindness advent calendar and everyone in the family will be participating this year. If I can figure it out we plan to add a link on our sidebar to help spread the word! Thanks for the awesome idea and the calendar!

OH MY WORD!! I love this!!!! I love the giving idea, everyday. What a great way to truly capture the spirit of the this season! I have gone and followed you personally on FB, and am doing a blog post about this as well. Awesome job! This will become our new December tradition.

Hi Megan, this is a wonderful post! My church participates in Outrageous Christmas every year where we are encouraged to live outrageously with kindness through the month of December. I love the idea of teaching our children the value of kindness during this season that is typically so full of wants of our own. On my blog I am writing a round-up of my top ten advent activities, and plan to link back to your post. I would love to include your picture, if it is alright with you! Again, thank you so much for sharing, I love this!

I already do some of these things thruout the year. Don’t know if I can do all of them in one month. whew…that’s a lot of kindness to spread around! lol. when i go to walmart, i drop a few handfulls of rice on the ground for the birds. i give hugs, i make lunch or coffee for someone, i call someone that needs cheering up…etc. it always makes me feel good to do something nice for someone else.

Thanks for this list! I printed off the chain printables, but instead of making a chain, our elf is bringing one of the slips of paper, plus the “supplies” needed for that task every day. For example, today’s task is “Feed the Birds”. Our elf set up some bird seed in a bowl in front of a bunch of stuffed Angry Birds, with the slip of paper in front. So when the kids get home from school, they can take the bowl outside and feed the birds! Yesterday the elf left paper, crayons, and markers to make letters to soldiers. This way I (I mean, the elf!) can decide which task will be easiest that day depending on what we have going on!

A great idea… even though my ‘boys’ are 40 and 35 respectively they have kids of their own and I can ‘randomly’ surprise them with some of the things on here. I applaud you for coming up with the whole bundle of ideas and fun, thanks for the sharing!

Hi Megan! We made our Random Acts of Kindness Advent Tree Calendar and my boys (age 5 and 3) are really into it! It’s so much fun already and we’re only on Day 4!! Thank you for the awesome idea! I’ll post a picture on my RainbowRice (a product I make and sell) FB page so you can check it out!

Thank you so much for your Random Acts of Christmas Kindness!! On Day 2 we giggled at the possibility of someone finding one dollar in quarters in the drink refrigerator at a local grocery store. We did Day 4 yesterday due to a timing issue and my 10 year old daughter decided that after Christmas we are going to continue with RAK. She said that each week we should always pick up garbage in the neighborhood and decide on another RAK to do for the week. Thank you for the inspiration and child appropriate ideas that cause them to look outside of themselves!!

My daughter and I love the calendar and card for Random Acts of Kindness. We would like to ask your permission to promote this in our community using facebook as well as my daughter’s Junior Miss Title. We believe in giving back to our community and overall kindness to everyone. We would include your blog link with any promotion we do. Thank you for your consideration.

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